shrub

A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.

No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention.

Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.

To lop; to prune.

The Papistes[…]though they be woll shrubbed, and shred, yet they begin euen nowe before the springe, to budde.

To plant a shrub in a yard, garden, etc.; to prune a bush or other plant into a shrub.

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial